Phil Haack has an excellent blog post on how to use JSON, data binding, and data validation.
Enter the browser's "same origin policy security restriction." and JSONP where you use $.getJSON() to retrieve the content.
Is there a built in MVC 3 way to do this, or do I need to follow the advice of posts like this? Can you post content? I ask because my colleague implemented a JsonPfilterAttribute among other things to make this work. It's obviously preferred to avoid that if something already exists in MVC 3.
Edit:
Summary: everything works with the exception of accessing a POST
variable, i.e., how do I access the POST
variable in the context? (comment marking it in the last section of code)
I elected to use this format to call the server:
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: "GetMyDataJSONP",
data: {},
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "jsonp",
jsonpCallback: "randomFunctionName"
});
Which produces this response:
randomFunctionName([{"firstField":"111","secondField":"222"}]);
And all this works very well if I use a GET
. However, I still cannot get this to work as a POST
. Here's the original code posted by Nathan Bridgewater here. This line doesn't find the POST data:
context.HttpContext.Request["callback"];
Either I should be accessing Form
in some way, or the MVC data validators are stripping out the POST variables.
How should context.HttpContext.Request["callback"];
be written to access the POST
variable or is MVC stripping out these values for some reason?
namespace System.Web.Mvc
{ public class JsonpResult : ActionResult
{ public JsonpResult() {}
public Encoding ContentEncoding { get; set; }
public string ContentType { get; set; }
public object Data { get; set; }
public string JsonCallback { get; set; }
public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
{ if (context == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("context");
this.JsonCallback = context.HttpContext.Request["jsoncallback"];
// This is the line I need to alter to find the form variable:
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.JsonCallback))
this.JsonCallback = context.HttpContext.Request["callback"];
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(this.JsonCallback))
throw new ArgumentNullException(
"JsonCallback required for JSONP response.");
HttpResponseBase response = context.HttpContext.Response;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(ContentType))
response.ContentType = ContentType;
else
response.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
if (ContentEncoding != null)
response.ContentEncoding = ContentEncoding;
if (Data != null)
{ JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
response.Write(string.Format("{0}({1});", this.JsonCallback,
serializer.Serialize(Data)));
} } }
//extension methods for the controller to allow jsonp.
public static class ContollerExtensions
{
public static JsonpResult Jsonp(this Controller controller,
object data)
{
JsonpResult result = new JsonpResult();
result.Data = data;
result.ExecuteResult(controller.ControllerContext);
return result;
}
}
}